This is how you fund a record pressing. Shame on all of the bands and labels who launch “pre-orders” knowing full well that their project is dependent on people pre-ordering, and then leave folks in the lurch as their orders take months upon months to fulfill with no update of progress. Michael Jantz, consummate gentleman, [...]
Well it’s about time. Without Sinking originally appeared on the Touch label in 2009, and many fans have been eagerly awaiting a vinyl pressing. This music certainly transcends the “modern classical” tag – it is minimal and sparse but deep enough to lose a morning or an afternoon or an entire day within. Beautiful stuff, [...]
Weirdos rejoice – Baked Tapes has taken their blown out sounds to the vinyl format. Both Grasshopper and Telecult Powers are familiar names for those who seek out the darkest and strangest corners of the cassette underground. Dudes have been blowing out face-melting tones for a few years each now. If you haven’t heard of [...]
Matt Christensen, guitarist and vocalist for Windy City minstrels Zelienople, is releasing his first solo LP for Under The Spire. A little bit folksy, a little bit psychedelic – just like the Matt you’ve come to know and love. Under The Spire is picking up momentum with their vinyl rollout so far, definitely a label [...]
Cian Nugent, an Irish guitarist versed in the Takoma tradition, drops Doubles on VHF Records. Two sides of steel strings blazing – one in the classic solo style and one with a full-on band rolling along with Cian. To hear that second track, click over to npr.org where it’s being streamed in full by the All [...]
At last, the 2xLP pressing of the newest Necros Christos manifesto. This Berlin horde plays death metal with so many interludes that it isn’t really fair to call them interludes. That may turn off some purists, but the rich instrumentals bookended by crushing, unholy metal of death is what makes this album stand far out [...]
Erik Keldsen’s Immune Recordings has never released a mediocre record, so with an update always comes excitement. The first of three new offerings is the Record Store Day split 7″ between Steve Gunn and Ilyas Ahmed. Gunn’s raga-tinged folk and Ahmed’s gorgeous “gone” experimentalism should be familiar to readers, but if not, investigate immediately. The [...]
Touch Records has once again given an absolute classic album from Johann Johannsson a proper vinyl release. Originally released in 2004 on CD, “Viroulegu Forsetar” is as good as the modern classical genre gets. This hour-long passage (broken into four sides) for eleven brass players, percussion, electronics, organs and piano is truly sublime, cursively blurring [...]
Important Records closes down 2010 in high fashion, releasing awesome new vinyl from Barn Owl (swoon) & The Infinite Strings Ensemble, Chord (featuring Trevor from Pelican) and two new LPs from the enigmatic Eleh, including a split with Ellen Fullman. Barn Owl needs no further explanation on these pages, everything they release is a must-have. [...]
Brian McBride, one-half of cinematic drone kingpins Stars of the Lid, presents a soundtrack tasked with conveying “the gloriousness of the bees, the endurance and hardships of traditional beekeepers, pesticides and the holistic nature of non-industrial agriculture”. A daunting task, no doubt; one which yields sublime results, of course. Those of you who get impatient [...]
